Infectious

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Capable of causing infection.
  • adj. Caused by or capable of being transmitted by infection.
  • adj. Caused by a pathogenic microorganism or agent.
  • adj. Easily or readily communicated: an infectious laugh.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Transmitted from one person to another, usually through the air breathed.
  • adj. Able to infect others.
  • adj. Spreading quickly from one person to another.
  • adj. Memorable and invoking excitement or interest.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic
  • adj. Corrupting, or tending to corrupt or contaminate; vitiating; demoralizing.
  • adj. Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture.
  • adj. Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Communicable by infection; easily diffused or spread from person to person or from place to place, as a disease, a moral influence, or a mental condition: specifically applied to diseases which are capable of being communicated from one to another, or which pervade certain places, attacking persons there, independently of any contact with those already sick. Infectious diseases include contagious and miasmatic diseases.
  • Capable of communicating infection; that infects, taints, or corrupts; contaminating: as, infectious clothing; infectious air; an infectious vice.
  • In law, capable of contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure or forfeiture.
  • Synonyms Catching, communicable.
  • Contaminating, poisoning, defiling.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. caused by infection or capable of causing infection
  • adj. of or relating to infection
  • adj. easily spread
    • Equivalent
    septic    infected    contractable    contagious    transmittable    transmissible    contaminating    communicable    catching    corrupting   
    Form
    infection   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    contagious    pestilential    epidemic    vitiating    demoralizing    sympathetic    catching    contaminative    catchy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    contagious    viral    chronic    toxic    inflammatory    debilitate    virulent    respiratory    infective    autoimmune   
     
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